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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1945
Page
6
Increasing cloudiness tonight with a warm 78 high and 55 low. Scattered showers and thunderstorms likely in the western portion tonight and across the entire Wednesday, barometer readings recorded at 29.63 at 3 am and 29.57 at 3 pm. El Paso Texas was the warmest at 101 while Bismarck North Dakota was the coldest at 44.
The notice lists validity dates for Red Blue and Sugar stamps from Book 4 and various food and fuel coupons. It mentions continued acceptance of applications for increased B rations and outlines fuel oil coupons valid through the current heating season.
Gorden E. Guinn of Princeton posted a $1 forfeiture for violating stop sign regulations here yesterday.
Mr and Mrs Robert Raisbeck of Woodford announce the birth of a son on June 25.
The report lists patients and medical actions across several towns including Goetz at 1002 South Street for surgical care, Campbell in Juda Route 2, Kruesi from New Glarus, John son in Beloit, Fry and Wild in South Beloit and New Glarus, with others named from St Victor Floyd Tollackson Argyle and more, plus dismissals of Grace Lien Elaine Hanson Katie Zweifel Mrs Donald Moore and daughter Roy Rockey.
London reports the United States Russia and France agreed on a collective trial for Germanys major war criminals to be held before a military tribunal. A general discussion followed as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe welcomed prosecutors and a bill of indictment covering atrocities and aggression since 1933 was outlined.
High winds swept the Atlantic coast from Virginia northward as a tropical storm swirled about 150 miles offshore from Norfolk. The system moved northeast at 18 to 20 mph with gales up to 60 mph within 75 miles of the center.
A fragmented line notes that five-eighths of Panama's 28,576 square mile territory remains unoccupied. The brief item hints at unsettled land distribution without detailing policy or dates.
An Allied source reports a half brother of Adolf Hitler, once a Berlin tavern proprietor, arrested in Hamburg by British security police. The man, unnamed, has not seen Hitler for a long time and authorities did not disclose further details.
Tokyo broadcast a Japanese communique claiming eight Superforts were shot down and 14 crippled by ground fire. The unconfirmed report said the attack was the largest precision demolition strike against Japanese war industry.
Manila dispatch reports heavy aerial strikes by Fifth air force fighters and bombers over northern Luzon. American and Filipino troops close in on the Japanese in the upper Cagayan valley as 33rd division troops advance along the Balud river. reports say trucks, dumps, and vehicles were blasted and many Japanese casualties observed along eight miles of valley slopes.
Allied troops renewed cave and hillside sweeps on Okinawa with interpreters and Japanese prisoner volunteers assisting the 10th Army. Command says 794 more enemy prisoners were captured, totaling 8,696, while searches for missing Americans continue with no body recoveries reported. Chinese forces push near Liuchow and Tapucheng as battles along the coast and inland intensify in Chekiang and surrounding areas.
Rep. Smith of Wisconsin introduced a bill to authorize a nationwide vote in the 1946 Congressional election on whether to require one year of peacetime military training for young men. The measure asks voters if Congress should enact such a law and have the President certify the question to states for the ballot.
Irene Olson visits Freeport. Ann Youssi of Rockford visits friends here. Mrs Fred Burkhalter of South Wayne caller today. Gary Coplien returns to Janesville after visiting. James Frautschy and Don Van Wagenen in Madison on business. Esther Speich Madison weekend with mother Ida Speich. Harold J. Lamboley and George W. Norton in Milwaukee on business. George and Carl Schlittler spend last evening in Winslow. Mrs William Davis returns to Rockford after weekend with Cleora Ritter. Margaret Saucerman and sons Barton and Simon Browns town here on business. Ambert Cody and Arlene Johnson Chicago visit Alfred Henning. Mrs Louis Eberhard Menominee visiting brothers George and Frank Sykes. Evelyn Geigel and Helen Klassy back from Chicago and Wisconsin Dells. Mardelle Geigel and Dorothy McCaulley Madison return home. Marion King Monroe and Robert Haberman Juda return from Belleville. Mrs Lee Pape and daughter Anna Marie Osceola with Fred Pape Richland yesterday. Carol Dora Schindler Patricia Green Gloria Green and Mrs Oscar Jensen week in cottage on Lake Geneva. W J Stauffacher and wife take daughter Alice Stauffacher to Milwaukee for summer school. Ernest Kuehne and son Delbert Madison weekend in Monroe. Kuehne’s mother-in-law ill at 2516 8th Street. Sunday visitors at Juda home include Carl Herrli Sr and family and related guests. Washington township visit extended to Stauffachers guests.
Miss Jean Marilyn Shippy daughter of Mr and Mrs Clair Shippy Orangeville and Marvin Meinert son of Mr and Mrs Alvin Meinert Rock City were married June 17 in St Pauls Lutheran church Rock Grove Rev Fred Heckathorn officiated. Attendants and ushers were Syrlah Heinert best man George Shippy and others. The couple, graduates of Orangeville high school, will live on a farm north of Rock City.
State Treasurer John Smith reports May revenue shifts with liquor and gasoline gains while income tax beer and cigarette receipts drop. Treasury balance rose from 48 548 740 to 68 182 543 as receipts reached 28 972 566 and disbursements 9 338 763 for the month.
Detroit area reports detail cattle and chicken thefts tied to a meat shortage. Sheriff Kennedy cites three men buying chickens then stealing 365 chickens across three farms while Trooper Clark notes multiple cows moved into a pasture corner. Undersheriff Fritz mentions thieves using chloroform or gas, and a Milan farmer found 150 chickens dead from gas. Royal Oak arrests a 29 year old Detroit worker and a 16 year old in a 200 pound calf theft.
Representatives of the 50 United Nations urged that the general assembly be open to the press and public. They argued freedom of information should be a process in the peace organization and that first session rules should keep sessions public except in exceptional cases.
Wisconsin Republican congressional delegation will meet with Victor Johnson secretary of the state Republican committee tonight to discuss the party future in Wisconsin. Candidates for state and national offices in the 1946 elections will be discussed.
Public health officials in Poplar Bluff Missouri ordered two OPA investigators from a city food locker after they failed to show health certificates. Health Officer Claude Murray said handlers must possess a state or city health card and threatened penalties if laws were ignored. The investigators left the premises and planned to confer with William Bryan in St. Louis.
Mrs. Fred Grimm of 2401 9th Street reports her sister-in-law Christ Grimm of Fort Atkinson lost a billfold here Saturday containing several checks including a $1,000 item. Meanwhile Borden Cheese VP Will A Foster from New York is in Monroe on business and will speak to the Kiwanis Club Thursday. He arrived from Elkhorn, birthplace of his parents who just marked their 52nd wedding anniversary.
To Methodist Group L B Lewis, Madison, former Monroe resident, and Oscar N Johnson, Monroe, were elected as southern district lay leaders for the Methodist conference of West Wisconsin at Plattsville last week.
Washington reports the House rejected an amendment to discharge fathers of four or more children from the army. The teller vote was 115 to 89. Representative Engel proposed the rule within a $38,500,285,951 army supply bill for the new fiscal year.
Alvaro Moreira de Oliveira, a Bahia hospital attendant, mourns Mussolini and Hitler as he recalls Nazi torpedoings near Brazil in 1942. He once grew a beard to protest barbarism but, aging, has shaved again following the dictators' deaths.
Mrs. Hans C. Thon, 51, died yesterday from burns suffered when kerosene spilled on a fire exploded at her farm home near Cornell. The blaze, started while she tended a kitchen fire, also badly burned her husband who was trying to rescue her.
A chimney fire at the Jacob Lauper place yesterday morning caused considerable excitement but little damage. Salt was tossed in the kitchen stove to extinguish the flames at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. William Lauper.
The battleship Pennsylvania returned to the Pacific theater after a 3 month overhaul at Hunter’s Point dry docks. Her turrets received guns from Pearl Harbor victims Oklahoma and Nevada. Since commissioning in 1916 she has participated in 13 Pacific amphibious operations and fired over 75 000 rounds.
June 24 report from Hollandia New Guinea describes native hostilities near the Shangri-la valley as an army air force rescue party fights mechanical delays. Capt. Cecil Walters leading the parachute rescue notes unfriendly tribes clashing near the valley encampment and stockaded villages.
Adm Sherman says Japan faces surrender or extermination. The veteran carrier commander from San Diego asserts no preference for Japan’s choice, calls Japanese a brutal race, but allows surrender might occur to save what they have. He dismisses war lasting 10 to 20 years as ridiculous.
Despite deep holes and ruts on the fairgrounds track, officials restored it to near perfect condition by afternoon. Bailey brothers circus infield cleared with a caterpillar. A circus trucker allegedly struck a $600 cow near Milton on highway 26, facing civil and criminal charges for leaving the scene.
The Green county war price and rationing board announced egg price ceilings. Farm to retail deliveries may not exceed 32.9 cents per dozen, farm to first receiver 32.6 cents, and direct farm deliveries to consumers allow about 38.5 cents per dozen after a 17 percent markup.
Central Life Assurance Society of Des Moines files suit in circuit court to recover 28864 dollars paid under protest to the state of Wisconsin. The firm says the fees are revenue producing unconstitutional and a tax on interstate commerce, and that they are discriminatory against out of state firms. The text adds that the national language of Haiti is French.
Funeral services for Ray A. Phillips 22 who drowned while fishing at Lake Wisconsin Saturday were held this afternoon at the Shriner Neushwander funeral home Rev Paul C Kehle officiated and interment was in Greenwood cemetery Bearers were John Johnson Ray Phillips Gordon Wells John Stauffacher Monroe Radcliff Meyers Brodie Carl Stauffacher Orfordville Phillips was with Homer Wardlow and Herman Dittmar when the boat overturned Wardlow denied hitting a stump and the body was found by Columbia county officials about 3 30 p m Monday He was born November 14 1922 in Browntown and lived here all his life married Pauline Belknap September 16 1942 and they had three children Jean Anne Lee Rogers and Dorothy Mae He is survived by his wife and parents two sisters and six brothers many serving in the armed forces in Germany the south Pacific and at various bases in the United States.
Armin Milbrath a 42 year old electrician for Wisconsin Electric Power was electrocuted yesterday after contact with a 22 000 volt switch at a Port Washington station. He died at the scene and authorities opened a routine investigation to determine the cause of the accident.
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